We performed a comparison between Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sangfor HCI and VMware vSAN come out about equal in this comparison. Sangfor HCI has an edge when it comes to pricing, but VMware vSAN has an edge when it comes to ease of deployment.
"The control panel is nice. It gives you a lot of good feedback as to the status and health of the VSAN."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"It includes every feature that a traditional SAN offers and so much more."
"Their support goes above and beyond with the integration of their software."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"They offer top-tier support."
"We have experienced multiple hardware failures at one site and the fault-tolerant volume worked exactly as expected with zero downtime."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that the nodes are Active/Active, and allow us to do upgrades on any node without any downtime."
"Sangfor HCI has a really good GUI. It allows us to monitor the temperature of the server and many other things."
"We find the topology feature of Sangfor HCI particularly valuable."
"Their GUI interface is a bit easier than VMware's."
"Sangfor HCI is a one-stop solution that enables you to store and centrally manage your VMs."
"The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) feature is one of the good features."
"Very user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable feature is the three nodes and the free hypervisor."
"The product provides a single management console for managing everything."
"By eliminating dependency on that back-end storage, we now depend on everything that's in the VMkernel with vSAN. We eliminate the middleman."
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"The main advantage is that it's all in the box, with VMware vCenter Server product."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"The product’s most valuable features are performance and expandability."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is the fast performance."
"Although minor, some of the documentation could be rewritten to be clearer."
"The most disappointing side of the application is the free edition. There used to be GUI attached. That has recently changed to only CLI management of the application."
"It could have a dashboard so that you can check all servers' SAN health and performance."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"The initial setup got a little confusing at a few points with differences between the VMware version in documentation vs the latest, etc."
"I would like them to invest time in reducing the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure."
"The documentation could be better."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"Support may be an issue for customers in some industries. For example, financial institutions may require 24/7 support."
"As far as I know, no hyper-convergence solution includes security, so you have to buy security from another brand. For example, you buy SimpliVity or Nutanix. They don't really have a security solution inside the product. It would be good if there is a security solution inside this solution so that it is not only for the virtualization of CPU, RAM, disk, and network but also for security."
"The interface could be a little bit better."
"My company faced some issues with the product, as our virtual machines crashed, and we had to face some security issues."
"We have had issues while integrating VMware with Sangfor HCI. The tool should be also faster in terms of customization."
"One question that has come up frequently in the last week is whether or not the renewal cost for Sangfor's HCI solution is too high."
"The documentation and support from the community are not as good or as mature as VMware or Hyper-V."
"There are certain aspects of sizing of the solution that need improvement."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"There's already a concern with VMware with ransomware and security issues. VMware could focus on improving security."
"I would like a better Hardware Certification List (HCL). The HCL should a little easier to deal with."
"Virtual machines disk size cannot cap more than a single node. For a VDI user, it may not save enough to hold a file server or exchange server on a single node storage space."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"It would be ideal if clients didn't need to monitor the solution on a daily basis."
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Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is ranked 10th in HCI with 28 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure writes "The solution offers straightforward setup, scalability, and manageability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Hyper Converged and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray. See our Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs. VMware vSAN report.
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